Silver Dollar City Presents the Giant Swing, Spring 2007
Silver Dollar City® - considered one of the top theme parks in the world – has an exciting surprise set to be revealed this spring! Opening for Spring Breakers in 2007, Silver Dollar City® presents a brand new seven-story swing, featuring roller coaster speed and high-flying thrills!
Silver Dollar City® is an 1880’s theme park that takes visitors on an exciting journey back in time, and the park has an amazing new development in 2007 sure to delight visitors to our Branson hotel. To create it’s newest electrifying ride, Silver Dollar City® combined the old-fashioned fun of a barn swing with high-tech, modern power. Enlarge this to massive proportions, and you have the Giant Swing!
A $6 million project, the ride will launch theme park visitors more than seven stories in the air – and nearly upside down – at roller-coaster speeds. This spring, guests to our Branson hotel can experience what Silver Dollar City® calls “barn-bursting, high-flying, super-soaring, big-air thrills!”
Located within a huge hay barn in the new “Great Barn” region of the park, the Giant Swing’s two massive arms hold back-to-back seat rows, allowing riders to soar backward as well as forward. Compressed air power propels the swings, shooting riders 75 feet high in opposite directions and through the barn roof before sending them back toward the ground.
Flying past each other up to 45 miles per hour, the swings then soar 75 feet into the sky, high above the trees, arcing a full 230 degrees so riders nearly hang upside down. The ride’s incredible acceleration offers “back-to-back G-force kicks” and feelings of weightlessness for a “full throttle, high-flying thrill ride.” Families who visit our Branson hotel are sure to be impressed!
In the spring of 2006, Silver Dollar City® presented the Grand Exposition – an $8 million, two-acre expansion with ten new family rides that soared. Those who stayed at our Branson hotel and visited the park were blown away by the addition. Imagine the fun your family will have at our Branson hotel this year surrounded by such spectacular attractions!